http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2008/...

The difference between a leader and a talker are easy to discern. McCain actually has a track record in the senate for doing something. All obama has are words of "hope and change". obamas voting record is hard to know what he will actually do as he votes "present" the majority of the time. It's hard to know where he really stands. It's hilarious that the left keeps comparing nobama to Palin. He is running against McCain, not Palin. She must really scare the left. McCain/Palin 08!

When Obama agrees with something McCain says, it makes McCain seem less like a "maverick", and Obama more like a leader and less a politician.

Whatdidyousay, I see you bring up the point that Obama agreed with several things McCain said, BUT what you failed to say is that they have differnent approaches to get those things done. We have to deal with Iran, I agree too. I sure hope they agree, know what i'm saying?

I think when ever someone can not look you , or someone else in the eye. Its hard to believe anything coming out of their mouth.

That is right, and that is the exact point Obama made to McCain the other night.

You have to look at the WHOLE bill and what it contains. Most of the bills that get voted on are full of pork spending and other stuff that isn't even part of the original bill. Look in to it before you start whining about it.

Why don't you read the entire post on that comment before posting your comment. You sound like McCain only taking what suits you and making a issue from it. Obama is most certainly more qualified than either McCain or PALIN, and it shows. Every time McCain opens his mouth.. Palin contradicted McCain after the debates. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/200...

I don't know who looks the bigger fool McCain or Palin.

obamas own pick for VP said he wasn't qualified to be president, should biden step down, or should obama step down?

I have a qs for all of you. On CNN they are reporting several conservative leaders are calling on Palin to step down. Now would that be a nightmare or what for McCain. She is clueless.

McCAIN IS NO LEADER. He kept talking about vets, yet he has voted against bills meant to help the vets. Being a vet does not make one entitled to lead by any stretch of the imaginination. He does not respect anyone but himself and his cronies.

I think McCain communicated better than I expected in a debate format he is usually uncomfortable with, and Obama was very strong on Foreign Policy, which was supposed to be McCain's strength.

Overall, McCain looked and sounded like a grumpy old man, and his use of multiple campaign slogans already heard a thousand times made me cringe. Independant and undecided voters won't like McCain's condescending tone.

I say rather have us all argue over who won, we should be happy that both candidates did well and had a good debate. In addition, I'd say this was one of the better debates I've seen in terms of quality. I've watched the debate twice and can say it was, without a doubt, a tie. Neither candidate had any knockout blows. Both candidates had a strong handle on the issues. The lies were fairly even from both sides. They were both articulate enough to get their points across. I think this shows that the best people were chosen from both sides. Honestly, they agreed on quite a bit more than I would have guessed.

You are delusional.

I may call obama a lot of things, but president will NEVER be one of them. More like comrade obama. There is a word that you had better get used to if obama gets elected, comrade.

isle as in island? perhaps you meant aisle?

Has Obimbo ever once reached across the isle to accomplish anything?

Last night, the fact that Obama said that McCain was right on several occasions caused consternation among some liberals, and great rejoicing on the right. I didn't agree. It would have been one thing had Obama not also been willing to say, forcefully, that he thought McCain was wrong. But he was, and usually his acknowledgement that McCain was right on some point was the preface to an explanation of why he was wrong on another. In that context, the fact that Obama was willing to acknowledge those points where he agreed with McCain struck me as gracious, not weak. There will be those who will think that McCain's attitude shows him to be a leader. I think it shows that he was not raised well. His refusal to look at Obama throughout the debate, his dismissive tone of voice when continually speaking of Obama in the third person as though he were not there, his inability to say anything good about his opponent, all showed him to be a natural bully or someone who has been taught to be a bully. The McCain campaign seems to think that pointing out the occasions when Obama said that McCain was right is a winning strategy. I think this is wrong, not only for the reasons I mentioned, but because it undercuts one of McCain's main lines of argument: that he is willing to reach across the aisle and work for bipartisan solutions, whereas Obama is not. Think about it: McCain couldn't even bring himself to look at Obama. He was consistently contemptuous and dismissive. And now he has released an ad that takes Obama's willingness to acknowledge that his opponents are right to be the sort of thing that's worth attacking him for.

McCain claims that he can truly reach out to his opponents and work with them, while Obama cannot. It's hard for me to think that his performance in this debate didn't seriously undermine that claim.

curtaincall...sorry for the name change.

Curtiantail, did you read your own links?? From your link "It can be reasonably concluded, especially after accounting for the slight Democratic bias in the survey, that we witnessed a tie in Mississippi tonight," CNN Senior Political Researcher Alan Silverleib said."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/P...

Here is a link right from the gazette saying Obama
won it last night. McCain is a joke even he knows it thats why he did not want to be there.

That's right Obama can admit when he is wrong, or someone else has a better idea. McCain never admits he is wrong. JUST LIKE BUSH. He has voted with BUSH 90% OF THE TIME. HE IS A BIG PART OF THE REASON the country is in the mess its in. Like when McCain tried to tout his 5000 health credit last night. OF course he left out the fact it was going to be taxed. UNTIL Obama made him admit that. McCain criticized Obama for wanting to tax big corp. Mccain trying to say it was drive companys out,, YET the way the law is written now for these big company's is there is a lot of loop holes and these big company's do not pay very much in taxes at all and they take their business over seas. McCain did not want to admit that either. He tried saying Obama's plan for Iraq was 'dangerous' if you go to factcheck,, you will see even they say McCain was misleading. McCain is a old man who should retire, not be president. His first guest at the white house would probably be president bush. They could have a breakfast for morans.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/27/d...

Everyone should start saying. President Obama. Go to CNN a very reliable news source. Polls show Obama won,,, meaning McCain sounded like the normal fool he always sounds like.

Obama didn't "win" the debate. Virtually all the pundits are calling it a tie. The polls are very misleading as the majority of those voting are democrats. Read the fine print, I've seen at least 2 polls from major networks which state that the voters are about 55% democrat, 35% republican, and 10% independent. Both candidates did better than I thought, and I'm with the pundits that there was no clear winner. I don't think McCain needed a big win in this debate, there are still more to come, and he's still ahead in the polls in FL and OH.

obama won the debate? You have got to be kidding. At least 5 times he said, McCain is right! obama got schooled on foreign policy, he showed just how inexperienced he is in that department. All he did was keep trying to tie McCain to Bush. If you really take a look, you will see how many times McCain has taken the opposite position from Bush. obama said McCain has voted with Bush 90% of the time. Well, what is the percentage that obama has voted the liberal democrat party line, when he did actually take a side, instead of just voting present? obama showed me very little, still espousing the same socialist diatribe as usual, and he is still the most liberal senator in congress. His proposal to raise taxes on the corporations that provide jobs won't work and he knows it, but it sounds good in an election cycle. Raise their taxes and they will pass the added cost on to the consumer as well as scaling back output which in turn will cause more layoffs of workers. How many so called "poor" people do you know that have provide jobs to the working class?

Oh, sorry, I see now that you weren't talking about the debate.

curtaincall--- that wasn't Palin in the debate, that was McCain.

I thought Obama did very well. FoMcCain, someone who has voted with Bush 90% of the time. HOW do you begin to explain the mess you helped to create?

Beeing an undecided voter myself and after watching the debate last night I can say I am much less undecided now, but not backing either candidate......yet.
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I thought McCain did ok, better than I was expecting and Obama did ok, about what I was expecting.

After the debate in their polls they did 46% said they felt better about Obama after the debate than they did before. He is a very honest, intelligent person and it shows.

Obama won that debate last night, hands down. Did anyone else notice, that besides right in at the start when they were introduced and right at the end McCain would not look directly at Obama. Obama looked at him many, many times. He did great..

Looks like the polls say Obama won. McCain needed a "game changer" and he didn't get it.

curtaincall.....Palin didn't only sound clueless, she was clueless. She has had her 15 minutes of fame and is now done.

What would have been the general concensus if it had been Obama who made the suggestion? You know that you'd be saying "what a great idea!"

Without a teleprompter to read from obama is toast! He will answer questions like he usually does. Uhhhh, ummmm, well I, uhhhhh, I ummmmm, well hope, uhhhhh, change, ummmm, uhhhhhh, hope and change, uhhhhh is that clear enough?

McCain PUT HIMSELF in a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation. What a humiliating backdown nonetheless. Can you imagine him trying to pull a stunt like this on Putin? Would every foreign policy crisis cause him to wig out? If the bailout was needed, why is he understood to be the main reason it has been scuttled? He certainly can't oppose it effectively now.
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When you paint floors, you know, you're supposed to back yourself toward the door, not the corner.

The sad part of it curtaincall theres still alot of dumb people that will vote for her:-(

Did you see that interview Palin did with Katie Couric??? She embarassed her self. She sounded clueless. I think Katie Couric was embarrassed for her.

He will show, and wish he had not.

McCain was in a damned if you do damned if you don't situation.

Damned if he shows up, because he looks like he was grandstanding (which we all know he was).

Damned if he doesn't because he would look like a coward if he didn't show.

The expectations are going to be high for Obama, so thats a handicap for him.

I TOLD YOU ALL THAT HE WOULD SHOW UP!